I tried to install Oracle9i R2 on my Linux box (running Ubuntu Hoary) but it was a waste of time.

About half-day of reading the fxxking manual, googling for info, hacking the shell script, tweaking kernel – they’re all useless. Most information i can find are about installing on the commercial distro such as Redhat or Suse, or about Oracle 10g, the lastest version. But, damn, it requires A GIG OF RAM ! That’s why i must use 9i instead.

Attemp to connect to remote oracle database also failed. I cannot get my php or python to work. Oracle requires special driver to connect to remote database server but i cannot find useful one for 9i, (there’re plenty of them for 10g , damn it)

Actually, for this scale of work (a term project), just sqlite is very ok !